ANN ARBOR — For more than 20 years, the Integrated Product Development course has brought together students and faculty members from different disciplines at the University of Michigan to participate in an innovative product design competition. The course, organized by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, is co-taught by Stephanie Tharp, associate professor at UM’s
LANSING - The term onboarding means different things to different companies. Some describe onboarding as the time it takes to complete paperwork and conduct a background screening after a new hire accepts an offer. Others consider onboarding to be the first-day orientation, consisting of one day (or one hour in some cases) packed with paperwork
LANSING - The Michigan Senate saw little controversy in moving its final budget bills Thursday outside of Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. calling for the savings from the other budgets being used for road construction. But, in the end, the most Senate opposition came on the higher education budget (SB 138), which passed 22-15, and the
WASHINGTON DC - All nine Republicans in Michigan's U.S. House delegation voted for the federal health care bill that would repeal many of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act like the penalty tax for those without coverage, reduce taxes on high-income earners and dramatically alter Medicaid coverage for the poor with
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google shut down a massive phishing scam that targeted users of its Google Docs service. You know, basically everyone. The sophisticated phishing scam spread across the web on Wednesday afternoon, tricking people into giving up access to their Google accounts. Some people, like Reddit user JakeSteam, said the scam is so sophisticated
WASHINGTON DC - It was a bombshell. Operatives from two Russian spy agencies had infiltrated computers of the Democratic National Committee, months before the US national election. One agency -- nicknamed Cozy Bear by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike -- used a tool that was "ingenious in its simplicity and power" to insert malicious code into the
ANN ARBOR – It has been one year since Online Tech launched its disaster recovery product, OT Disaster Recovery as a Service. The company reports clients have achieved industry-leading recovery times for their applications. On average, their recovery point objectives (RPOs) dropped to under 12 seconds, and recovery time objectives (RTOs) decreased to just 10
GRANDVILLE - Managed Service Provider Trivalent Group has hired three new employees and promoted another. Those appointments include: Aaron Darland has been appointed Account Manager for Trivalent’s Mid-Michigan Branch currently located in Mt. Pleasant. Aaron previously served as Trivalent’s Team Lead for Inside Sales and has been with the company for 15 years. He lives
ANN ARBOR - Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. continued to rise in April, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold last month was 25.3 mpg—the highest mark since last May. Overall, fuel economy is down 0.2 mpg from
BINGHAM FARMS - In Jacobs Media's new web study of radio listeners, a big story is how radio’s traditional listening locations – the home, the car, and the workplace – are undergoing change. From content consumed to new distribution outlets to emerging gadgetry, the traditional pattern of media usage and radio listening are changing – in
